Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) is the new smartphone that is going to be launched soon this coming year in 2016. The smartphone is the 2016 variant of the December 2014, launched Galaxy A5 from the South Korean smartphone manufacturing giant Samsung. The smartphone is expected to hit the smartphone mobile stores all over the globe in the later half of December 2015.

The smartphone is said to be another one from the smartphone manufacturing giant that falls in the mid budget range just like its predecessor A5 2014. The smartphone is same in most of the hardware specifications and features but there are some major changes in the SoC, GPU and the processor. These are the major and only changes that are featuring in this new 2016 variant smartphone.

Full Specifications –

The smartphone is the 4G LTE based device with the dual sim option also available. This new device is having the various much needed features like; WiFi – WiFi Direct – Wifi Dual band – WiFi Hotspot, GPS with A – GPS, GLONASS, Radio with RDS, Usb v2.0, Bluetooth v4.1 and NFC (4G LTE Model only). It is also having the Fingerprint Sensor in this new smartphone from the South Korean Giant Samsung.

Just like its predecessor this new 2016 variant smartphone is provided with the 5.2 – inch Full HD Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen display having the 424 ppi of pixels density which provides the 1920 x 1080 pixels of the display resolutions. Also there is the Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection over the elegant AMOLED display.

Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) specifications are driven by the Octa – Core 1.6 GHz Cortex – A53 powered by the Exynos 7580 system on chip (SoC) coupled with the Mali – T720 MP2 graphics processing unit (GPU). The smartphone is having the pre – loaded Android v5.1.1 Lollipop operating system out of the box that may be further upgradable up to Android Marshmallow in the near future.

When we talk about the camera unit of this new smartphone the 2016 variant it is featuring the 13 MP of rear facing primary camera having the 4128 x 3096 pixels of the camera resolutions with the auto – focus, geo – tagging, touch – focus, panorama, face detection and HDR features with LED Flash light. Also there is the presence of the front facing 5 MP secondary snapper selfie camera which is also capable of 1080p of HD video recording.

In terms of the memory unit of this device from South Korean smartphone manufacturing giant is coming up with the 2 GB of on slot RAM which is somewhat better than that of its predecessor and the internal storage memory of 16 GB with the microSD card slot to expand the memory to further up to 128 GB.

Also there is presence of the accelerometer, compass ad proximity sensor while the smartphone is going to be available in the Platinum Silver, Soft Pink, Pearl White, Champagne Gold, Light Blue and Midnight Black as the smartphone is packed with the non – removable 2900 mAh Li – Ion battery.

Price –

As the Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) specifications are quite brilliant than that of its predecessor having the price of Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) smartphone is the major concern as the smartphone is a device that everyone is looking for to have a go for. As stated before in the beginning that the smartphone is going to be the mid budget range device.

Price in USA is 300$

Price in Europe is 285€

Price in Britain (UK) is 200£

Price in India is 19,999 Indian Rupees

Price in Canada is 400 Canadian Dollars

Price in Australia is 410 Australian Dollars

Price in Malaysia is 1265 Malaysian Ringgits

Price in Sri Lanka is 42,999 Sri Lankan Rupees

Price in Pakistan is 31,600 Pakistani Rupees

So what are your thoughts on the Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) specifications and price. The smartphone is going to beat the numbers of sale that its predecessor had what are your thoughts on this please let us know.

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